My first day with an Insta360 x5 camera

At this time of year my normal style of photography is curtailed by the very late light nights where dark doesn't arrive soon enough. And when I do stay up late to take advantage of dark skies, I end up with a sleep deprived hangover the following day. And not wishing to walk around like a forlorn zombie for a day, I decided it was time to bite the bullet on a 360 degree camera, the Insta360 x5.

I have bought this camera primarily for work purposes. I conduct building surveys for garage workshop developments and this camera will be quite useful going forward.

The Insta360 x5 is also quite a useful tool for leisure purposes too!

This post isn't intended to be a long one with me waffling on about photos as usual. It's more of a test post to see if I can upload content from the Insta360 desktop app. Here goes....

Sherwood 360

I took a trip in to Sherwood Forest with the new camera. I'm lucky to live right next to the infamous/ famous forest and it's reputation for robbers in the wood still apply today in my home town which would have formerly been part of the forest too.

This is a "tiny planet" view from a 360 degree photograph. I positioned the selfie stick on a small tripod and hid behind a tree, out of sight. I fired the camera remotely from my phone and found the range to be quite good at maybe 15 mtrs away.

The file size on this image is 10,000 pixels across so I've had to reduce the pixel resolution somewhat to make it fit here: